Sentence examples for into commonwealth from inspiring English sources

To manage the threats posed by oil, gas and commercial fishing, the marine reserves also need to reach far out into commonwealth waters, say scientists.

Starmer is gratified that what began in obscure privy council legal hearings, has developed into Commonwealth legislation and now broadened out into an international campaign affecting every state around the world.

Michael Jamieson, the Glaswegian whose talent was spotted and honed in these waters in the East End of the city, was supposed to turn Olympic silver into Commonwealth gold.

In 1901 Tasmania joined the new Federation of Australia, and all of the city's fortifications passed into Commonwealth control.

Such raids, which pillaged wealthy Ottoman cities, contributed to the Cossacks' income but provoked retaliatory raids into Commonwealth territory.

"If our sovereignty is what we have to lose to be readmitted into the Commonwealth," Mr. Mugabe was quoted as saying Friday, "we will say goodbye to the Commonwealth.

On July 1 , 1569 a common Polish-Lithuanian parliament meeting in Lublin transformed the loose personal union of the two states into a Commonwealth of Two Peoples.

In her lifetime, the queen, who was born April 21 , 1926 has seen the British Empire transformed from a pre-eminent world power into a commonwealth of 54 independent states, of which she is the figurehead.

Perhaps because of the pressure exerted by years of international boycotts and decades of domestic insurgency, de Klerk was quicker than Gorbachev to recognize that his ruling party's life project — a South Africa carved into a commonwealth of separate and independent nations, poor black ones and prosperous white ones — was cruelly absurd and ungovernable.

On 12 April 1654, the Council of State issued and Ordinance for uniting Scotland into one Commonwealth with England, which would be the "Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland", under the authority of the Instrument of Government that made Cromwell Lord Protector.

On 3 April 1652 a bill for an Act for incorporating Scotland into one Commonwealth with England was given a first and a second reading in the Rump Parliament, but it failed to return from its committee stage before the Rump was dissolved.